 The FBI in peace and war ordinarily heard at this time throughout the year as taking its usual summer vacation And will return to CBS one week from tonight on September 1st Broadway's my beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle the goddess the most violent the lonesome-est mile in the world Broadway's my beat with Larry Thor as detective Danny Clover Broadway it's a swamp that'll drag you breath by breath into its shadow pool Or it's a meadow shining with golden light It's a place and a time and a loneliness that reaches out for you Then beckons you into an airless room and locks the door you get out or you don't Either way, it's Broadway my beat a Man dies in silence and in dark in the city sets up a shrieking clamor and you're part of it You ride a scream through the crowded heat-heavy streets, and then you hit a dead end And it's a building and a room at the top of the building And it's a man lying in the center of the room while other men take notes on the history of his dying All right, Joe get one from this angle, huh? Yeah, hold on while I focus will you hi a Danny? Okay, that's good Got it. I'll get a shot of all that food. Oh what a bank with this guy Danny Danny come over here. This will interest you never interest me doc. What have you got now? Dane the novelist ever eat any of his stuff. No, neither do I the wife does though So she's mad about him, but she went mad over Rebecca of Sonny Brooke font Let's have tea some other time on doc. Tell me about Dane. Hey, hey first tell him about me, huh doc tell him about me Yeah, Danny. This is Clam Picasso. Yeah, that's who I am Picasso Picasso Haven't I heard your name someplace sure you have Clam Picasso to paint it. I paint flagpole That's where it was you were painting a portrait of a flagpole for Dane. Is that it? No, you don't understand I'm the real article. Let me tell you about me. Yeah If it wasn't for me you guys wouldn't even know Dane was dead. Tell me more about yourself Well, I was painting a flagpole on top of this building. See all of a sudden came a gust of wind I grab hold the pole drop my pale of paint right through that skylight there. See I look for spilled paint I find a dead man. That is the experience that happened today to Clam Picasso flagpole painter Unforgettable it'll live in my memory too. You got anything to add to that doc Only this Danny this rumors are fortress Dane must have built it on top of his penthouse for a retreat It's ventilated by an air conditioning system the only source of outside light is that skylight and that's at least 30 feet from the floor There's no phone and the room was locked and bolted from the outside. Dane couldn't get out This place is bare no writing materials. Nothing. Yeah like a tomb Maybe you needed this kind of atmosphere to think maybe All the boys found when they broke in here was Dane and that table loaded with food all Jard fruits chicken all sorts of good things to eat. What's the matter doc? You're hungry. Just tell me how Dane died He died of starvation Danny, huh? Yeah, all that food and he died of starvation Curious man is Val Dane now Danny. I could have dropped it right there Val Dane I told myself had committed suicide by starving himself to death there by obtaining new material for his next novel That's what I told myself. That's how much sense it made. That's why I couldn't drop it In New York hardly anybody dies in a vacuum a man as famous as Val Dane never does There has to be a close friend or relative to break the news to and in a case like this to question Wasn't tough to find out that Val Dane had a wife now divorced and a city director. He said she lived on West 79th Street It was apartment 105 as simple as that Yes, what is it your mrs. Dane? Only approximately mr. Dane and I are divorced. I've kept his name for my son's sake Your Danny Clover. I'm from the police. Oh, how interesting. We've never had a caller here from the police. Won't you come in? Thank you. I Do hope you'll stay until Jimmy comes home Jimmy is my son mr. Clover I'm sure he'd love to hear the experiences you'd have to tell him In here the living room. That's quite a collection of glass toys there on the floor clowns building sets Animals and all in glass Jimmy must be an unusual boy. Oh, yes. He is That's all I have left in life mr. Clover To make him happy There's something I have to tell you that might make you quite sad about Jimmy. No, it's about your former husband Val Dane He's dead. Oh, I'm so happy. I Mean I'm relieved. I was afraid with Jimmy being on the streets, and it doesn't affect you mr. Dane's death I think I should be more sad if I read in the papers that a man I never met had died at the age of 93 I see. No, you don't really How could I feel sorrow for Val Dane? He was a miserable ten years thrust into my life. Why do you say that because he was a talented egoist He cared nothing for Jimmy Cared even less for me We lived for him. He lived for Val Dane. Oh, when did you see him last? Two years ago In that horrible cabin in the Adderondacks he forced us to go there so he could write and one more thing mr. Clover Yes When you write your report about me put this down put down Joanne Dane Val Dane's ex-wife She's glad he's dead. I Didn't bother to tell Joanne Dane that her former husband had starved to death I had a feeling she would have enjoyed that too much and death doesn't need laughing at But when I hit Broadway again death was screaming at me in big black letters Val Dane had become public property for a nickel a copy. You got the funny papers, too I called headquarters and asked sergeant Todd Tankley if anything new had turned up something new had get back to your Office right away. The sergeant said there's a guy wants to see you. He's hysterical Sergeant wasn't kidding Something in my office makes you laugh like that the pollen maybe I can't help it It's richest the richest one I've ever heard. Okay. Okay. Come out of it. Who are you? My name's my name's Brooks Lyle Brooks Lyle Brooks. Oh, tell me gently. What's so rich? Oh, I think of it again. Lieutenant. I shall roll in your floor and continued convulsions of hilarity and think of something real sad Like a right to the jaw and tell me what's in your mind. Why why Val Dane starved to death? Don't you think that's funny No, well, I think it's funny what tickles you about a man's death Brooks about Val's death He was such a pig and he starved to death Well, that lieutenant is humor category ironic humor. What's your interest in Val Dane's death? I'm his ghost ghost Book this guy for impersonating a human. Hey, that's a serious right now Tartaglia book him for sure for impersonating a human, huh? Come on. You'll Eastman have a sense of Jess too I see come on you. So I'll explain I am Val Dane's ghost. You're doing it again Brooks his ghost writer I did much of the writing which is credited to our so literary mr. Dane That's why I came to give myself up to give yourself up. Did you have anything to do with this dying? Surely not, but you might think so. I hated him Val Dane cheated me time and again, but this time was the biggest cheat of all Hey, what's he talking about Danny? I'm talking about the great fake Val Dane's latest book I wrote at least half of it, you know got no credit Val said I would get credit What are you trying to tell us just this if Val Dane met with foul play in any way? I should head your list of suspects me and Cynthia of course we mustn't forget Cynthia. Oh, we can't forget her Cynthia who Cynthia Troy why everybody knows she's the woman in the great fake Heavens, do you mean to say you haven't read the book mr. Clover? Mr. Clover hadn't but mr. Clover did The great fake new novel by Val Dane available at your favorite bookstore three dollars the copy I bought it noted it carefully on my expense account and went home and curled up with three dollars worth of vitriol Because that's what the novel was a book of hate a sneering book a book without humor There wasn't a person in it only caricatures dipped in acid and the leading woman of the novel had been dipped deepest of all It tweaked me the next morning. I just had to see her I'd been expecting a call from the police mr. Clover drink. No, thanks, mr. I'm then you won't mind if I do I know I realize it's before noon, but then I haven't had my breakfast yet You sure you won't have a drink. Yeah, I'm sure Just why had you been expecting a call from the police mr. Troy? Because I have no doubt about your intelligence One thing you must know in my business is never to underestimate anybody mind if I ask what your business is the same as in Val's novel I give parties mr. Clover. I arrange that the unfortunate rich be impressed by their leisure and their wealth By opulent and clever parties mr. Clover for an opulent price mr. Clover now the question mr. Troy Why was why were you expected mr. Clover? The answer is a question How do you get a man to starve to death? I've been asking myself that you think somebody got Val Dane to starve undoubtedly Val Dane was a man whose only love was Val Dane. He was too jealous of his love to kill himself He would never commit suicide then you think he was murdered. I believe I implied that don't you? Did you kill him? The idea Tiddleates me Yes, it's a rare thought Ask me that again mr. Clover look miss Troy the social graces aren't one of my Social graces in your circle. How do you tell a lady to quit stalling by telling her then let's quit stalling, huh? Very well You've read val's novel. Yes It made a fool of me. Didn't it is that why you killed him locked him in that room and starved him to death I should like to have done that mr. Clover the idea. Yeah, I know it titillates you You've started a train of thought mr. Clover I should like to have locked him in that room and spent days of ecstatic joy Watching val dane star I went back to the clean almost domestic air of the police laboratory and waited while the lab boys checked and rechecked the coroner's report No matter how you shook it. It came out that val dane had died of starvation Then it caught up with me what synthia troy had said It would have given her days of ecstatic joy to watch dane starf There was only one place anyone could have done that that was from the roof and through the skylight of dane's death room I took a uniformed officer with me because maybe that kind of ecstasy leaves a clue Danny, I've been over every inch of this roof. There ain't a particle of it. That ain't intermittent familiar to me I'm also sick of the sight of it under my nose. Okay, officer. You can get up off your hands and knees now Thanks, Danny You know, Danny, maybe it had helped if you told me what it is we're looking for. I don't know thread of cloth Cigarette, but the smell of hate the smell Huh? Hey, Danny, you dizzy from the altitude or something? No, no You can go now officer. I won't need you anymore. Okay Hey, you know, it's kind of pretty up here All the lights of the city Gee, that reminds me. I think I'll take my wife to the top of the empire state building. It'll be like a second honeymoon Out so long, Danny. Don't stay too long in the night air. Yeah It has to be something something Didn't make sense what I saw A piece of scotch tape stuck to one of the panes of the skylight I leaned down to examine it And then there was something that did make sense the sound of someone moving toward me and then I I whipped out my gun and ducked behind the gun of the skylight and then it found me When I woke a sickly dawn spread itself over the roof and over me I took inventory and found I was missing two items The valuable hunk of skin from my right temple and a piece of scotch tape Just that scotch tape You are listening to broadways my beat with larry thor as detective danie clover A thrill a minute high tension suspense from the word go dramatic excitement that bills and bills until it explodes in a smashing climax That's inner sanctum the great mystery show. That's another of cbs top notch monday night programs You'll find inner sanctum one of the most entertaining spots on your monday night listening schedule And remember luxe radio theater returns next monday august 29th for its 15th year of great dramatic presentations Inner sanctum luxe radio theater every monday night over most of these same cbs stations Now back to broadways my beat Morning on broadway is like any other august morning and a thousand other main drags People are caught up in a salary to be earned baseball scores and the heat You keep moving and do the best you can The best I could do was to try to push my way through a brick wall Progress was practically at a standstill But by now one thing was obvious. I had a murder on my hands Valdane had been found starved to death in a locked room with a banquet spread before him That in itself was something to nick the curiosity But when I got too curious somebody had taken a shot at me Draw a line and add that up and you get a six-letter word meaning foul play At headquarters after I had my head bandaged sergeant artaglia was terse and intelligent about the whole thing I can't figure it. Danny. Don't try it artaglia. If you could figure it you'd become invaluable to the department You'd never get your pension. Did you get what I told you to? Yeah one piece of fostered glass just like you said. Thanks Where'd you get it? Now Danny, where would you get a piece of fostered glass at police headquarters out of the men's powder room? You better hurry up with it. Yeah, I will tear off a piece of scotch tape Now we'll paste it over the glass like this Uh, what are you doing Danny pasting scotch tape on frosted glass? It's the latest craze now we Hold it up to the light Look through it artaglia get up close and look through it Hey Hey, you can see right through it the part of the glass with the scotch tape on it. You can see right through Hey, that's a neat trick, Danny It's also a clue sergeant the skylight to val dain's retreat was frosted glass Somebody stuck that missing piece of tape on the glass so they could watch val dain die Artaglia suppose you were locked in a room loaded with food and you were starving to death What would you do? I'd eat the food unless what artaglia unless nothing Danny I'd eat the food Unless what artaglia Danny? I said I'd eat the food unless it was poor Unless it was poisoned Danny You saw right Artaglia I want all the food found in val dain's room transferred to the technical lab right away I want every piece of it analyzed for poison. I want the analysis on my desk as soon as possible right Now wait a minute. Yeah Danny clover speaking Officer assigned to follow Cynthia Troy. Oh, okay, my Chicago. What do you got at 9 a.m. This morning Cynthia Troy entered the 5th avenue apartment of one Michael green who I mean cream Michael cream cr eam cream, you know like in cream 15 I had loud voices which at 9 20 become a heated argument. Who is this Merkel cream? Oh, am I checked? He's a yogi a yogi, huh? No, that's interesting. These guys go on starvation dies to get next to their souls Thanks mate you can't stick with Cynthia It's a taglier. Yeah, Danny get by better nails. I'm calling on a yogi The yogi with a homogenized name Merkel cream lived in a rich creamy 5th avenue mansion with a high money fat content The outside stairs were covered with a thick layer of perfumed oriental carpet when you rang A girl made of copper with bells on the ankles of her bare feet and a jewel stuck in the middle of her forehead Opened the door with a scented arm motions you into the presence The presence was a muscular man with the body of a professional football player Wearing a plume turban and an imported english tweed loincloth He sat in the middle of the floor bathed in the celestial glow of a baby pink spotlight and then The presence speak You have come. Yeah, mr. Cream. I speak not when I speak You have come you said that You have come to attune yourself to the eternal harmony that lies six fathoms deep in the cosmic sea You will go into the cleansing room You will go into the cleansing room and there cleanse yourself and attire yourself in a loincloth You will find a suitable array hanging from pigs the uh Panthers skin for you. I think look mr. Cream have no fear. They are sterilized after each use Now go tortured one go look cream. I'm not here to cross your palm of silver. How dare you speak to Merkel cream thus How dare you savage? That's me. Look into your crystal ball and tell me why you should scream at a tortured one named synthia Troy and vice versa. How did you know? Don't answer I will answer for you You are omniscient clairvoyant Like the me that is the true me like the me that is dany clover new york police I got a hunk of protoplasm named meshikar who floats under windows and soaks up things like a fishwife brawl between you and synthia But you are clairvoyant The synthia underneath synthia is a fishwife. She pays you to tell her that Synthia Troy is a disciple disciple fallout sometimes as you know, I've heard val dane. He he was a disciple too What did you do to dane yogi put him on a starvation diet for his eternal harmony? Then you've read his book. Yeah, he gave you a paragraph. Let's see if I can remember the exact words The yogi a vicious parasite a jeweled vampire A stinking phony. Did I quote the exact words exactly yogi cream? Dane died in a way that pleases me He died in an agony of hunger What does it matter if his exact words are remembered? To him or to me, what does it matter? Yeah Get up cream. You're coming with me. I got a feeling you can give me better answers with your pants on You believe that I'm a fake. You believe what dane said of me to put a bluntly cream. Yeah, sorry, but yeah Maybe dane killed your lush racket with his bestseller. Maybe you knew it would Maybe you arranged for him to die Let's go Help me up. Mr. Clover. Yeah, cosmic harmony makes you weak. All right You know, I can't afford to go to jail. It would ruin me Let go of me if you move, mr. Clover. I'll break your back as if it were a stick of wood Let go of me a little trick I learned from a man on amsterdam avenue 10 judo lessons for 20 bucks worth it. Don't you think? Don't you think I got my lessons for free. We'll send them back. They're no good. Let's find out shall we let's find out Now my way cream, let's do it my way Oh Well, what do you know The yogi found cosmic harmony Has to be a phone in this dump Yeah This is dany send a stretcher to pick up yogi mr. Merkel cream. Yeah, he spilled out of his bottle One stretcher coming up. Hey, dany. We got a report on that food. Yeah, give it to me Well, I was about to dany, you know, it is very interesting So tag me if you don't talk fast order a stretcher for yourself too. What about that food? Well, not poison Until the yogi was in condition to talk to me. I had to talk to myself What kind of man was val dane? That was the big question the important question Locked in a room long enough to starve to death and he refused to touch the food the unpoisoned food at his fingertips. Why? What was the mentality of the man? Once longer ago. He had been human enough to marry to have a family Maybe that was the clue once somebody loved him Maybe his ex-wife joanne dane would be calmer now Maybe she could divorce her memory from ugliness Yes Who are you? I'm dany clover a police detective. Who are you? I'm the landlady What can I do for you? I want to see joanne dane Joanne's not in any trouble. She's a fine girl. What kind of trouble would she be in? No, I didn't say she was in any trouble. I just wanted to talk to her. Oh, she ain't in. Where is she? Joanne's out for a walk With jimmy jimmy What are you talking about her son jimmy mr. You got the wrong address Joanne's got no son Nobody lives here by the name of jimmy Say what kind of a detective are you anyway? Yeah, hot kind clover Let's go find out Here are the vital statistics. He asked for dany. Yeah Hey, when are you gonna take me to see south pacific dany? Any day now doll. I'm just waiting for that inheritance Oh, dany, stop pulling my leg Here No, the vital statistics dany. Read it to me doll because your voice is like honey. Read it to me. Get him James dane age four son of val and joanne dane died june 22nd 1947 cause of death accidental poisoning Death spasms took four hours Remoteness of cabin and adirondacks made it impossible to reach boy in time to help Signed dr. James ropes Hey, hey, dany, where you going? I haven't finished Dany come back here. I've got some things to settle I was out when you called before mr. Clore. Yeah, I know Joanne your landlady said you'd gone for a walk with jimmy jimmy loves to walk on a sunny day like this Where's jimmy now hot plain Joanne I asked you before now don't lie. When was the last time you saw val dane? I won't lie a few weeks ago as I told you a few weeks ago. Yeah Another question Why did you go to see him? To ask him for money. I hated myself for it, but jimmy needs clothes. You see he'll be going to school this fall and I see Joanne did you Take anything with you anything that you gave to val. Well, I don't think so. I can't remember that I did food Why food in jars chicken preserves things like that Well now that you mention it mr. clover. I Yes, I think I Yes, joanne you told val that food was poisoned, didn't you just before you left just before you closed the door behind you You're told val it was poison. Didn't you joanne? What are you talking about just before you locked the door and bolted it behind you You told him that you pointed a gun at him and told him that why should I do that joanne? Joanne listen to me jimmy is dead, isn't he? jimmy dead Jimmy dead jimmy died two years ago. You know that joanne know what I don't know what you're saying Neanderondacks one summer two years ago jimmy took some poison by mistake There was no way to get help soon enough You and val had to watch him die. You're making all that up You blamed it on your husband. You blamed him for bringing you there because it was so remote No, no, no, it wasn't that way at all. Yes, it was you left that food with your husband joanne You told him it was poisoned You knew he'd never have courage to taste that food after seeing the way jimmy died Your husband took his chances with starvation rather than suffer the way jimmy did jimmy suffer Jimmy dead. Yes, joanne. He's dead These glass toys are only a lie that you're making yourself believe that jimmy's toys your final revenge joanne You had to watch val die. Yes, you came back each night to look through the skylight. Yes, finally when he was dead You came back to remove that tape. That's when you saw me. Yes And I wanted to kill you because I was frightened of mr. clover. That's the only reason I didn't hate you then You've got to believe me. I didn't hate you, but I hate you now, and I've got to kill you now, mr. clover I've got joanne put down that gun You broke jimmy's toys You broke them Oh jimmy toy is broken broken. How can you forgive me son? I'm sorry. Oh, you're... Hello, give me the police department This is Danny clover. No, I don't want a riot squad I want an ambulance and a doctor It took 15 minutes for them to come and in that time I watched the shadows soak up the remnants of her mind How do you tell a woman her life is done? How do you fill it in reports? How do you make statistics out of it and file it in a ledger? How do you write sorrow as a number? How? Broadway's really living now. It's got a creamy yogi back in circulation Cynthia is throwing a marvelous party for patrolman mishekeff And the ghost li'l brooks. He's haunting another author Broadway's jumpy now and it wears a chip on its shoulder It's flexing its muscles and daring the night time And before it's over it'll tear itself apart and laugh at its own agony It's Broadway the goddess the most violent The lonesomeest myelin of world Broadway my beat Broadway's my beat with Larry Thor as detective Danny clover was directed tonight by Cliff Howell with script by Morton Fine and David Friedkin Musical direction is by Lud Glaskin That man is coming back again Yes, Arthur Godfrey is returning from his vacation And he'll be helping some promising young performers up the ladder of success When Arthur Godfrey's talent scouts return to the air next monday night over most of these same cds network stations Along with the talent scouts you can hear such great shows as my friend Irma Inner sanctum the lux radio theater and the bob hawk show all on monday nights and all on cds Stay tuned now for mr. 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